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The Ten Best History Books of 2025

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...
The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.
Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said young Americans lack historical context about Israel after consuming ...
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President Donald Trump's portrait is set to appear on new national parks annual passes starting in 2026, when the Trump ...
Cecilia Partsch has many fond memories of growing up on the family farm in Conemaugh Township and dreamed of one day owning ...
A People’s History of Sports in the United States By Dave Zirin The New Press; 268 pp. The Gist: In A People’s History of Sports in the United States Zirin sets out to deflate the misconception that ...
MR. MCMASTER gives notice of the school to which he belongs when he entitles his history of the United States A History of the People of the United States. 1 The late Mr. J. R. Green was not precisely ...
A resurfaced video of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proves Republicans’ latest attack on Democrats is completely unjustified ...
Attorneys for a New Jersey anti-abortion center and the state's Attorney General argued their cases Tuesday before the U.S.
Trump's tariffs may threaten Chinese imports of U.S. soybeans. It took decades of diplomacy to establish these ties.